In the Brink of Consciousness
summary
Projects present concrete builds and outcomes: Yummie is made in four weeks from pots pans and store parts and moves into a family home; a promotional flame box logs 30,000 presses; character robots tour exhibitions (Vitra) and trigger real conversations; industrial collaborator Klaxon deploys Walt with RoboVision deep‑learning gesture and speech recognition and F3D imaging in an Audi plant; the installation runs over a year among 500 robots / 20 humans and stays in daily use. Tools: 3D printing, laser cutting, found objects, improvised puppeteering and deployed neural models.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:12Physical Installations
- 6:54Yummie
- 11:00Robin
- 19:37Steve
- 21:52Walt
- 25:09AI
- 26:25Service robots
- 27:47Leo
- 32:17Turf
- 32:52Police robot
- 37:32Robots
- 38:09Creative people
- 38:20Rachel
- 39:29Blade Runner
- 40:17Rachels Story
- 41:19How long will it take
- 41:56Is it conscious
- 42:39A genuine moment
- 43:08Conclusion
- 43:44Outro
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